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Emma Dabiri"William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

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Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri"Harriet Jacobs’ writing transports readers to the world of Southern slavery". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks

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Bound for Britain: your guide to the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush

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African Europeans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of the Haiti Rebellion. From 1791-1804, the Caribbean isle of Hispaniola burned and convulsed as enslaved Africans rose up in rebellion after rebellion – finally emerging as independent Haiti. (Image by Getty Images)

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The Haitian Revolution: the enslaved Africans who rose up against France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wolfson History Prize 2021 special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tulsa race massacre: A man surveys the wreckage of homes in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa, June 1921. Two days of racist violence and destruction left what had been one of the United States’ wealthiest black communities in ruins

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The 1921 Tulsa race massacre: the worst single incident of racial violence in US history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Apartheid road sign

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Your guide to apartheid in South Africa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Blackface: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Young civil rights activists sit in defiance at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Oklahoma City, 1958

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Jim Crow in the United States: a brief guide to the racial segregation laws

Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

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Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

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The forgotten mothers of civil rights leaders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How slavery fuelled the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mourning Martin Luther King JrThe life and legacy of the civil rights leader. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. (Photo by David Lee/Netflix)

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Who was Ma Rainey, “mother of the blues”?

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2020: the historians’ verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Washington Carver in a laboratory

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History heroGillian Burke chooses George Washington Carver (c1864–1943). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest

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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat: what happened next?

Claudia Jones at the Brixton offices of 'The West Indian Gazette'

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Black British historyBritain's black trailblazers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stephen Bourne on Black soldiers in WW2

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Black Britons in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Enslaved women & resistance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Christian Frederick Cole: England’s first black barrister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Famous Victorians: Emily Bronte and Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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7 famous Victorians: from Brontë to Brunel

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An Atlantic slave war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black radical: William Monroe Trotter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Actor Stephanie Levi-John as Lina in 'The Spanish Princess'

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Catalina: the real history of The Spanish Princess favourite

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The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain's first black sports star

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